Spend ~10 minutes in quiet making my pour-over coffee. This sounds pretentious, but it is the only time of day where I have ZERO external input. Having personal reflection, isolation, and silence is important.
Once I have coffee in hand:
If there was a problem I couldn't figure out from the previous day, usually sleeping on it does the trick. I start on the problem right away. This means skipping the usual morning message checks.
Otherwise I do all of the following:
Check email, SLACK for anything important
Run through all my GH notifications (usually over 20+, some I don't care about others I do). This usually builds my task list for the day.
Spend ~10 minutes in quiet making my pour-over coffee. This sounds pretentious, but it is the only time of day where I have ZERO external input. Having personal reflection, isolation, and silence is important.
Once I have coffee in hand: